Listen to CRLA alumni and current volunteer, Mo Jourdane, discuss how he and CRLA ended the use of the short hoe in the 1970s, a victory that improved the lives of farmworkers then and now.
The long tale of the short-handled hoe
Take a look back at a historic battle over workers’ rights in California. It all started in “the salad bowl of the world” – aka Salinas Valley – and the fight was over a simple tool: the short-handled hoe.